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October
2007
Welcome to the
First MAP Newsletter. The newsletter will be sent in the form
of a mail shot. If a particular article should interest you
please click on the link and you will be redirected to the
full version of the text. Please remember to turn off any pop
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members are interested in publishing something on the next
newsletter, be it a personal article or any other relevant
information; please feel free to contact the MAP or Cedric
Sciberras.
On a side note we
would like to congratulate Mr. Luciano Pace Parascandalo and
his wife, Mrs. Maria Louisa Busuttil and her husband and Mr.
and Mrs. Aaron and Thelma Saliba who have recently given birth
to Julia Marie, Martha and Rowan respectively. May God bless
you and your families, and good luck to the proud
parents.
 Guidelines
for Inspiratory muscle training
Back
Awareness Campaign
Upcoming
Events
Interesting
Links
Guidelines for Inspiratory muscle
training 
Inspiratory Muscle
Training (IMT) is a form of pulmonary rehabilitation,
currently being researched in depth to find optimum and
effective treatments of use in various conditions with. One
must note that the rationale for respiratory muscle training
being very strong. Patients can condition their respiratory
muscles by following a regular programme of breathing
exercises. The Threshold IMT develops the respiratory muscles
by placing a workload on these muscles during inspiration. Click here for
more information.
Back Awareness
Campaign 
The MAP in
collaboration with Health Promotion Department will be
organizing a campaign on Back Awareness. The focus of the
campaign shall be primarily towards school children. As is
expected, we require resources and man power. If you have any
material that you would like to put forward and/or if you are
willing to contribute some time towards this campaign we would
appreciate if you would contact us asap. Click here for more
information.
Upcoming Events 
The MAP is
currently trying to organize a course entitled, 'Human Factors
in Physiotherapy' as an ongoing CPD opportunity. The course is
made up of ten sessions each of three hours and will be spread
over a number of months (still to be decided). Spaces are
restricted to twenty people on a first come first serve basis
and payment must be affected upfront. The course will be
facilitated by Dr. Paul Micallef who is a Chartered Clinical
Psychologist and Consultant/Advisor for Staff Training and
Retraining at the Ministry of Health, the Elderly and
Community. Click
here for more information.
On the 13th October
2007, the Maltese Society of Rheumatology will be organising a
symposium on the occasion of World Arthritis Day. For further
information and full programme follow the link below. Click
here to download program.
Between the 13th -
19th October 2007, The Continence Care Interdisciplinary Team
– SVPR (CCIT) will be organizing a Continence Care Awareness
week at The St. Vincent de Paule Residence. Click here
to download program.
Interesting Links
Whilst doing some
research on the net, I came across a very interesting leaflet
produced by the Occupational Therapy Department, The Ipswich
Hospital NHS Trust, about Anxiety Management. Considering that
most of us either suffer themselves or else come across
patients who suffer from anxiety, I thought it would be
usefull to post this link. Hope you will find it interesting
and informative for yourselves or others. Click
here for more information.
Regards,
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